Becker's Healthcare January 31, 2025
Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital Health Network is one of the first health systems to adopt an AI platform from Epic that has helped detect lung cancer in several patients.
The application uses natural language processing to extract mentions of lung nodules from radiologist reports for lung navigators to review and track. Since mid-August, when the technology went live, the AI has found over 4,200 lung nodule mentions that led to the detection of nearly 100 cancers and the initiation of more than 50 cancer treatments.
“This is quite a significant deal,” Christ Hospital Chief Medical Officer Marcus Romanello, MD, told Becker’s. “This is multiple lives saved. If you look at the treatment for Stage 1 cancer versus Stage 3 or 4,...
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